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fabulous invalid

fabulous invalid proper noun: the theater as a declining artform; stage productions generally.

Proper noun

the fabulous invalid

  1. The theater as a declining artform; stage productions generally.
    • It hopes others will join in the financial medication of the fabulous invalid.1950, Billboard, volume 62, number 3, page 50
    • Here, he continues to trace the long decline of the 'fabulous invalid' through the season of 1991-92 — a season overshadowed by the death of Joe Papp, […]1993, Clive Barker, Simon Trussler, New Theatre Quarterly 32 (volume 8, part 4, page 313)

Origin of fabulous invalid

In reference to The Fabulous Invalid, a 1938 stage play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart that follows the oscillating fortunes of a fictitious Broadway theater between 1900 and 1930.

Questions about fabulous invalid

What does fabulous invalid mean?
Fabulous invalid means the theater as a declining artform; stage productions generally.
What part of speech is fabulous invalid?
Fabulous invalid is a proper noun.

Words near fabulous invalid in the dictionary

  1. fabulizes
  2. fabulizing
  3. fabulosities
  4. fabulosity
  5. fabulous
  6. fabulous invalid
  7. fabulously
  8. fabulousness
  9. fabulousnesses
  10. faburden
  11. faburdens

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